actually this got me thinking of a return to the original futurizations of a traditional home phone:
- By using a bluetooth headset can work as traditional phone
- Coupling it with a front or swiveling webcam, could bring videophone
- As a low powered computer can access web and apps.
- Can even incorporate wireless control over smart home devices - lights, appliances, etc.
- more size = more storage capacity, allowing it to hold the average user's entire media inventory, which could in turn be broadcast locally via dock or wirelessly depending on the setup

Thus becoming the defacto must-have home appliance. This may not be their current goal, but definitely my own wish - oh and a pony!

it is NOT news, that's why its here and not on...uhm...digg! - and there is another thread already for stating the obvious

in that case, over a century to go:
21:12:2112 (euro notation)
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